Lets not get ahead of ourselves here...

1. the SPIRIT of this standard is that students should not act as staff
replacements, EVEN IF they have a scholarship, work-study, etc, that someone
might use to justify it. The standard says NOTHING about a hard and fast 20 hour
rule. At best, it has been a suggestion in EVERY discussion of the topic
between PD's and the JRC-AT. I thought this was clarified nicely back at the
educators conference.

2. These concerns appear to stem from HIS INSTITUTION'S / the federal
government's work-study regulations about a 20 hour cap for work-study
students. This is NOT part of the standard, but an interpretation from his own
institution.

3. The VAST majority of our students are not on work study, so this
interpretation would not apply to them. In fact, as I see it, it means that
students who ARE on work-study can only be paid for up to 20 hours of it at his
institution.

I'm certainly not in favor of grossly inappropriate numbers of clinical hours
for students. At the same time, we don't need to be creating a generation of
athletic training "clock watchers". My suggestion is to plan for roughly 20
hours of clinical time per week with the understanding that this may be exceeded
on occasion and may be underused in others. It's all about teachable moments
and not about counting hours. Geez....I thought we quit being clock watchers
when we moved to proficiencies instead of hours :-)

- Mark


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The Ohio State University
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